I am beside myself with grief and am speechless while trying to digest the reality that His Grace Gopiparanadhana Prabhu has been taken away by Krishna. Krishna’s plan is always perfect but when it manifests in the passing away of such an intimate, loving Godbrother as Gopiparanadhana Prabhu it is painful. But our solace is in our deep confidence that he has attained the ultimate perfection of life, entrance into Radha Giridhari’s eternal lila.Gopiparanadhana Prabhu was an all-attractive persona
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In Bhagavad-gita it is recommended that even though one enters the renounced order of life, he still cannot give up the performance of yajna, dana and tapasya. They are never to be given up. Tapasya is meant for the renounced order of life; those who are retired from worldly activities should perform tapasya, penances and austerities. Those who are in the material world, the ksatriyas and vaisyas, must give charity. Brahmacaris, in the beginning of their lives, should perform different kinds of
Question: Self-Confidence for a Devotee? |
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Dear Guru Maharaja: |
raja-vidya raja-guhyam
pavitram idam uttamam
pratyaksavagamam dharmyam
su-sukham kartum avyayam.
"This knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct perception of the self by realisation, it is the perfection of religion. It is everlasting, a
kala-magadha-salvadin
anikai rundhatah puram
ajighanat svayam divyam
sva-pumsam teja adisat
kala -- Kalayavana; magadha -- the King of Magadha (Jarasandha); salva -- King Salva; adin -- and others; anikaih -- by the soldiers; rundhatah -- being encircled; puram -- the city of Mathura; ajighanat -- killed; svayam -- personally; divyam -- transcendental; sva-pumsam -- of His own men; tejah -- prowess; adisat -- exhibited.
How could God allow such a tragedy to take place? Radhanath Swami Answers…
Question to Radhanath Swami: If there is a God who is all loving and compassionate, how could he allow the attacks on the World Trade Centre to take place?
Radhanath Swami briefs about how people are taking it: Today the world is drastically shaken by recent events that have taken place in the United States of America. I just came from that land. I have never seen America in such a condition. It is shaken to its very core.
The masters of the yoga system have declared that there are eighteen types of mystic perfection and meditation, of which eight are primary, having their shelter in Me, and ten are secondary, appearing from the material mode of goodness.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 11.15.3
Note:
1. Anima-siddhi – The ability to decrease the size of one’s body and become smaller than the smallest particle. Through this siddhi one may enter into stone or change the density in one’s body, enabling one to pass through
Question: Why Do Humans Act Like Animals? |
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Dear Gurudeva, |
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Answer: Bad Association. Now Change It. |
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It is only due to bad association with materialistic men that a human being behaves like an animal. This is why is it very important to avoid worldly association as muc |
Why is it that (in the Hare Krishna movement) you do not eat onions and
garlic?
After all they are vegetables, are they not? One can understand the
prohibition against meat-eating. But what is wrong with eating garlic and
onions? Surely there's no more violence committed when we eat an onion than
when we eat a potato.
Answer:
GARLIC IS TOXIC - PROVEN MEDICALLY
Garlic - a Brain Poison? from GARLIC - TOXIC SHOCK! Reprinted from Nexus
Magazine, Feb/Mar 2001. Source: From a lecture by physicist Dr. Robert C
